We have had a new intake of rehab horses arrive over the weekend so I will be posting all their new pics and videos over the next few days.
First up is Billy, the only one who has arrived in shoes, and who was diagnosed in August last year on MRI with DDFT and navicular bone damage in both front feet although he is lamer on the right foot.
He has been shod in bar shoes with pads but his lameness persisted.
I filmed him on arrival in his shoes and these photos are of his feet straight out of shoes, starting with his worse (right) foot.
There is the fairly typical long toe and contracted frog - the bar shoes and pads had enabled him to land heel first but had of course prevented the frog and back of the foot from receiving any stimulus so it is not surprising that they look weak.
As ever, this is the business end which we will hope to see improving over the next few weeks.
Although he is not as lame on this foot there are obvious issues and as with the right foot the palmar hoof is under-run and has effectively collapsed.
A slightly better looking frog on this foot but looking at the heels the level of under-run is clear.
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